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From Mildenhall Fen Tigers Facebook page. Meeting preview: NORA British Pairs Championship - Mildenhall Stadium, Saturday 25th.July 2026 It’s a case of Two’s Company at Mildenhall Stadium on Saturday 25th. July with the NORA British Pairs Championship coupled with demonstration races from the leading riders from British Championship Sidecars providing a full programme of events for what promises to be an exciting evening of top-quality Speedway racing – gates at 6pm for a 7.30pm start time. The NORA Pairs event sponsored by ‘The Racing In The East’ project sees the welcome return to Fen Tigers’ colours of West Row favourite son, Alfie Bowtell; partnered by Aussie Harry Sadler – who scored a hugely impressive paid 12 on his Mildenhall debut last month. The home duo face stiff opposition from five visiting pairs. Fellow NORA League side Kent Eagles come with predictable strength, captained by a former National League Pairs Champion in the vastly experienced Ben Morley and a former Fen Tiger, returning after a mid-season break from action, one time British U19 rostrum man, Jack Kingston. Another former third tier Pairs Champion in the form of Simon Lambert fronts up the first of two Pairs brought to the meeting by the HG Aerospace Speedway Academy – the Anglian Angels. The Angels were the joint-side put together back in the late 1990s by East Anglian giants King’s Lynn & Ipswich and the Foxhall-based Academy has resurrected the team name for this meeting and future use. Partnering multi-British Finalist Lambert and making a West Row debut on her racing tour of Europe is World Women’s Championship number 4, Tayla Street. Team Managing the Angels is former Ipswich Witches rider and long-time Team boss at Foxhall, Ritchie Hawkins. The other HG Aerospace-backed team are Ipswich themselves – with two leading members of their Academy in Ashton Vale and Harrison Rogers looking to upset the odds. As will the remaining two pairs: Cradley A.R.H. Heathens’ Seth Norman and former GB Youth Champion, Luke Harris; and the Boston-based duo of Mickie Simpson and Sam Woods, wearing on the evening the colours of a team name from the Cambs & Lincs border of old, Wisbech. Making the meeting a double attraction will be the mighty 1000cc Sidecars featuring two legends of the discipline: former British Sidecar Speedway Champion, Paul Whitelam and multi-GB Champion in Grasstrack Sidecars, Will Penfold. Both crews have multi-appearances in the Sidecar Speedway World Championships and there couldn’t be more impressive ambassadors re-introducing this discipline to British Speedway tracks. The meeting is sponsored by the ‘The Racing In The East’ project. Details of this University of East Anglia ground-breaking project will be in the special souvenir meeting programme along with an exclusive article highlighting the very little-documented post-war Wisbech Speedway written by Speedway historian Derek Barclay. Chairperson of the Mildenhall Supporters Trust who run Speedway at West Row; Kieran Phillips states, “This is such a big meeting for the club – our biggest since we formed the Community Interest Company and reopened the sport at West Row. The field is of great quality and we’ve had tremendous sponsorship and support from fellow clubs which is so heartening to see. On track it’s going to be close and exciting for sure.” The NORA British Pairs Championship is at Mildenhall Stadium on Saturday 25th. July – gates at 6pm; tapes up at 7.30pm. Admission is £15 with youngsters aged 15 years and under, go free.

Announced teams & riders for Nora Pairs Championships sponsored by "Racing in the East" Saturday 25th July 1. Mildenhall Fen Tigers Alfie Bowtell & Harry Sadler 2. Kent Eagles Ben Morley & Jack Kingston 3. Cradley Heath Heathens Luke Harris & Seth Norman 4. Anglian Angels Simon Lambert & Tayla Street 5. Wisbech Mickie Simpson & Sam Woods 6. Ipswich Adacamy Ashton Vale & Harrison Rogers As always subject to change (esp. Kenzie Cossey, who broke ribs at Iwade on Sunday) Edit Tayla Street replaces Kenzie Cossey.

Sack him off now, Richard Coleman hinted they weren't happy with riders being late, missing track walks, wrong kit & missing parade truck (all done by Lawson) and he doesn't fit the team ethos they seem to be trying to install.

Scrap that, now 25th July. Taken from Facebook MEETING NEWS The next Mildenhall Speedway meeting at West Row will now be on Saturday July 25th with the staging of the inaugural ‘Racing In The East’ NORA Pairs Championship. The meeting scheduled for 4th July was to be a standalone challenge match vs Cradley but with a range of circumstances to consider following a disappointing crowd in the last meeting, this has led to a decision not to run against the football World Cup tournament likely to keep fans away and instead prepare for the big event later this month. Six pairs will be competing with Kent Eagles and Peterborough Panthers already confirmed as sending pairs to compete in this NORA national championship event. Supporters Community Trust chairperson Kieran Phillips spoke of the cancellation of the Cradley meeting. “It’s obviously disappointing to have to cancel next weekend but we have to accept (as very many others across the land looking to organise events during the period of the FIFA World Cup are doing likewise) that going up against the televised football with two major knock out round games effectively clashing with our meeting time, this would be a very risky thing to do. And with us already facing some financial jeopardy after a very disappointing attendance last time means we will not take that risk. “We are looking for our Trust members and loyal supporters to step up and for our appeal for a main team sponsor to provide the backing we need; and on top of that, our attentions are fully on promoting what is going to be a hugely memorable meeting on July 25th”.

Might do, does anyone know if the Diner has air-conditioning?

Mildenhall Fen Tigers 54 Norwich Stars 36 (A11 Trophy) Saturday 13th. June MILDENHALL FEN TIGERS 54 Ben Morley 2 2 2' 3 3 12+1 Seth Norman 1' 3 0 1 3 8+1 Harry Sadler 3 1' 1' 2 2' 9+3 Sam Woods 2+ 2 1' 2 3 10+2 Ben Whalley 2 3 3 2 1 11 Max Broadhurst 1' 1 1' 1' 0 1 4+2 NORWICH STARS 36 Ryan Ingram 3 3 3 3 2 14 Dylan Huthwaite 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kyran Lyden 0 0 1' 2 3+1 Connor King 1 2 2 0 0 5 Harrison Rogers 0 0 0 1 1 2 Ollie Binns 3 1 3 3 2 0 12 Heat details: 1 Ingram, Morley, Norman, Huthwaite 56.2 (3-3) 2 Sadler. Woods, King, Lyden 55.5 (8-4) 3 Binns, Whalley, Broadhurst, Rogers 53.7 (11-7) 4 Ingram, Morley, Sadler, Huthwaite 53.2 (14-10) 5 Whalley, King, Broadhurst, Lyden 53.8 (18-12) 6 Norman, Morley, Binns, Rogers 54.4 (23-13) 7 Ingram, Woods, Sadler, Huthwaite 52.2 [Track Record] (26-16) 8 Whalley, King, Lyden, Norman 52.4 (29-19) 9 Binns, Sadler, Woods, Rogers 51.9 [Track Record] (32-22) 10 Ingram, Whalley, Broadhurst, Huthwaite 52.3 (35-25) 11 Morley, Lyden, Norman, King 52.8 (39-27) 12 Binns, Woods, Rogers, Broadhurst (fell rem.) 52.0 (41-31) 13 Norman, Binns, Broadhurst, Huthwaite 54.2 (45-33) 14 Woods, Sadler, Rogers, King 55.0 (50-34) 15 Morley, Ingram, Whalley, Binns 52.5 (54-36) .

Mildenhall Fen Tigers 41 Peterborough Panthers 48 (NORA League Challenge MATCH DETAILS MILDENHALL FEN TIGERS James Shanes 3 2 3 3 3 14 Ben Whalley 1 2' 0 1 2 6+1 Sam Woods FX F 0 3 2 5 Kenzie Cossey R 1 1 3 0 5 Ben Morley 3 R 2 3 0 8 Patryz Daniszewski 0 1 0 1 1' 3+1 PETERBOROUGH PANTHERS Simon Lambert 2 3 3 2 1' 11+1 Luke Harris 0 1 2' 1' 3 7+2 Jack Kingston 2' 3 3 0 2 10+1 Mickie Simpson 3 2' 1 2 3 11+1 Arran Butcher 2 R 0 R R 2 Seth Norman 1' 1. 2 2 1 7 + 1 1 Shanes, Lambert, Whalley, Harris 54.3 (4-2) [4-2] 2 (rerun) Simpson, Kingston, Cossey (ret.), Wood (fell exc.) 55.6 (0-5) [4-7] 3 Morley, Butcher, Norman, Daniszewski 56.4 (3-3) [7-10] 4 Lambert, Shanes, Harris, Woods (fell) 53.0 (Track Record) (2-4) [9-14] 5 Kingston, Simpson, Daniszewski, Morley (EF) 54.1 (1-5) [10-19] 6 Shanes, Whalley, Norman, Butcher (ret.) 53.9 (5-1) [15-20] 7 Lambert, Harris, Cossey, Woods 53.1 (1-5) [16-25] 8 Kingston, Morley, Simpson, Whalley 54.0 (2-4) [18-29] 9 Woods, Norman, Cossey, Butcher 54.9 (4-2) [22-31] 10 Morley, Lambert (15m h’cap), Harris, Daniszewski 53.5 (3-3) [25-34] 11 Shanes, Simpson, Whalley, Kingston 53.6 (4-2) [29-36] 12 Cossey, Norman (15m h’cap), Daniszewski, Butcher (ret.) 58.2 (4-2) [33-38] 13 Harris, Woods, Daniszewski, Butcher (ret.) 55.0 (3-3) [36-41] 14 Simpson, Whalley, Norman, Cossey 54.3 (2-4) [38-45] 15 Shanes, Kingston, Lambert, Morley 53.1 (3-3) [41-48]

Next meeting 4th July. We’ve been to both meetings so far and racing has been good and track so much better than before.

Spedeworth have been trying to buy the stadium for years, have signed a long term lease which will allow more development, new main straight grandstand/building planned, more boxes on bends 3/4 and new 2 storery replacement for Di's Diner are what rumoured.

He was limping quite badly all evening.

He is actually currently racing!

Also had Fricke on over 12 & had Lawson on over 6 💩💩

Unfortunately Rob cannot commit to every meeting ☹️ luckily the PA is so bad in the main stand can't hear anything when bikes are running.

Where is Blodorn? Finished on the podium in an Individual meeting yeterday in Germany.